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level of the lower edge of the pupil. Teeth small, villiforni, in a narrow 

 baud in each jaw^ ; those in the outer series slightly enlarged ; the band 

 in the ux)per jaw considerably broader than that in the lower ; no canine 

 teeth ; bands of villiform teeth on vomer, palatine, and tongue. Adi- 

 pose eyelid little developed. Cheeks and opercles scaly. Gill-rakers 

 long, longer than the pupil. Breast closely scaled, its scales a little 

 smaller than those on the sides. Upward curve of lateral line not very 

 strong. Armature of tail feeble, only those plates on the caudal peduncle 

 Itself having distinct spines; about 2Q plates may be counted before 

 they merge into the ordinary scales. 



{Spinous dorsal low and feeble, the highest spine scarcely as long as 

 the snout, the last spine nearly free, short and thickish ; a small pro- 

 'jumbent spine before the dorsal ; soft i)arts of dorsal, anal, and caudal 

 densely covered with small scales ; soft dorsal and anal low, their highest 

 vays scarcely longer than the snout ; free anal spines, separate from the 

 tin but connected with each other, scarcely longer than the pupil ; caudal 

 tin short, not widely forked, the lobes equal, the upper lobe f length of 

 head, tha distance vertically between their tips slightly less than the 

 length of the head ; ventral fins very short, scarcely longer than snout, 

 reaching about half way to anal; pectoral fins falcate, reaching about 

 to the fourth soft ray of anal, their insertion on the level of the max- 

 illary, their outer surface largely scaly ; length of pectorals | the great- 

 est dei)th, about equal to length of head. 



Fin rays: D. VIII-I, 26; A. II-I, 23. 



Two specimens of this species were obtained by Mr. Charles H. Gil- 

 bert and myself at Beaufort, X. C, in the summer of 1877. They were 

 taken with a small seine in the harbor, close to the shore. 



It agrees in dentition and many other respects with Caranx cibi Poey, 

 but the latter species is much slenderer, the depth of the body being 

 about equal to the length of the pectorals or the length of the head. I 

 place it provisionally in the genus Caranx, the value of the various pro- 

 posed subdivisions of the latter group not being evident. 



The example from which the preceding description was taken has 

 been presented to the United States National Museum, where it is num- 

 bered 27372. 



I present a table of comparative measurements of the type Caranx 

 heani and of one of Poey's types of C. cibi. 



